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COMPARATIVE MEDICINE SPECIALIST IV

Employer
Duke University
Location
Durham, NC

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Employment Type
Full Time
Institution Type
Four-Year Institution

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COMPARATIVE MEDICINE SPECIALIST IV
Lab Animal Resources

Manages direct reports: issues corrective action procedures, approves time off requests, and monitors attendance in accordance with policy and procedures. Performs selected duties listed under th under the Facilitator Track at the discretion of the Operations Manager or designee. Participates in professional development courses, as specified by management, designed to maximi maximize development of management competencies. May be expected to participate in weekend on call rotations.

Work Performed

1. Assumes management of direct reports, as described above, under the mentorship of the Op Operations Manager.

2. Performs all duties and responsibilities of the CMS I, II and III levels, and serves as back-up intheir absence.

3. Performs daily work involving the handling of conventional and genetically engineered animal models, animals with immunocompromised health status, infectious disease studies, and animals recovering from surgery or other invasive procedures, neonates etc.

4. Performs duties within v various animal biosafety levels.

5. Provides guidance and training to CMS I - III and research staff; facilitates small group and team building activities.

6. Assists Operations Manager or designee with purchases of supplies or other management duties in t duties in their absence or as assigned.

7. Continuously improves facility operations and pilots these changes in a small group; evaluates successesand failures and reports these findings to the Operations Manager.

8. Communicates with veterinary staff on a daily basis about all health observations and confirm confirmed conditions; assists in the development of new operations approaches that are likely to minimize the incidence of common problems. Communicates with the PIs as directed by the veterinary staff about about health concerns that can be prevented and instructs DLAR or research staff on methods to acco accomplish this.

9. Monitors anesthesia and assists in surgical manipulations during the conduct of operations on animal subjects; responds to anesthetic emergencies to ensure that animals receive care in accordance with the best veterinary and nursing practices.

10. Monitors and ensure that post- operative procedures are in compliance with Duke Policies and the Guide for the Care and Use ofLaboratory Animals.

11. Performs diagnostic procedures including CBC, serum chemistry, serology, microbiology, parasitology, radiology, and necropsies as necessary.

12. Assists the Operations Manager with all animal importations and exportations making sure that animal identification, strain nomenclature and proper transportation equipment (transgel, nutritional supplements, sterilized bedding, escape proof containers, etc.) are used.

13. Performs initial inspections of incoming or newly arrived animals assuring that they are acclimated and appear physiological stable prior to research initiation.

14. May provide specialized technical assistance to DLAR veterinarians and investigators. Serves as a resource to investigators in the preparation and conduct of their approved protocols.

15. Implements breeding programs for DLAR and investigators.

16. Implements environmental enrichment program and assess animals for behavioral problems; change enrichment devices based on knowledge of behavioral problems and proper therapies.

17. Assists in quarantine, isolation, and housing of animals in the Duke facilities with any special health concerns to protect the health of other colony animals.

18. Assists in the conduct of CMS meetings and training as scheduled by the supervisory staff.

19. Works weekends and holidays as assigned.

20. Complies with DLAR and Duke Policies and standard operating procedures.

21. Performs other related duties incidental to the work described herein. operative procedures are in compliance with Duke Policies and the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals.

Requisition Number
401518741

Location
Durham

Duke Entity
MEDICAL CENTER

Job Code
3505 COMPARATIVE MEDICINE SPECIALIST IV

Job Family Level
09

Exempt/Non-Exempt
Non-exempt

Full Time / Part Time
FULL TIME

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Shift
First/Day

Minimum Qualifications
Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Duke aspires to create a community built on collaboration, innovation, creativity, and belonging. Our collective success depends on the robust exchange of ideas—an exchange that is best when the rich diversity of our perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences flourishes. To achieve this exchange, it is essential that all members of the community feel secure and welcome, that the contributions of all individuals are respected, and that all voices are heard. All members of our community have a responsibility to uphold these values.
Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

Education

High school diploma or equivalency degree. Must have a valid driver's license LAT certification required; LATG certification preferred

Experience

Five years of laboratory animal care experience. Supervisory experience preferred. OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

Auto req ID

106899BR

Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender expression, gender identity, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Essential Physical Job Functions: Certain jobs at Duke University and Duke University Health System may include essential job functions that require specific physical and/or mental abilities. Additional information and provision for requests for reasonable accommodation will be provided by each hiring department.

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Organization

Read our Diversity Profile History

Duke University was created in 1924 by James Buchanan Duke as a memorial to his father, Washington Duke. The Dukes, a Durham family that built a worldwide financial empire in the manufacture of tobacco products and developed electricity production in the Carolinas, long had been interested in Trinity College. Trinity traced its roots to 1838 in nearby Randolph County when local Methodist and Quaker communities opened Union Institute. The school, then named Trinity College, moved to Durham in 1892, where Benjamin Newton Duke served as a primary benefactor and link with the Duke family until his death in 1929. In December 1924, the provisions of indenture by Benjamin’s brother, James B. Duke, created the family philanthropic foundation, The Duke Endowment, which provided for the expansion of Trinity College into Duke University.Duke Campus

As a result of the Duke gift, Trinity underwent both physical and academic expansion. The original Durham campus became known as East Campus when it was rebuilt in stately Georgian architecture. West Campus, Gothic in style and dominated by the soaring 210-foot tower of Duke Chapel, opened in 1930. East Campus served as home of the Woman's College of Duke University until 1972, when the men's and women's undergraduate colleges merged. Both men and women undergraduates now enroll in either the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences or the Pratt School of Engineering. In 1995, East Campus became the home for all first-year students.

Duke maintains a historic affiliation with the United Methodist Church.

Home of the Blue Devils, Duke University has about 13,000 undergraduate and graduate students and a world-class faculty helping to expand the frontiers of knowledge. The university has a strong commitment to applying knowledge in service to society, both near its North Carolina campus and around the world.

Mission Statement

Duke Science"James B. Duke's founding Indenture of Duke University directed the members of the University to 'provide real leadership in the educational world' by choosing individuals of 'outstanding character, ability, and vision' to serve as its officers, trustees and faculty; by carefully selecting students of 'character, determination and application;' and by pursuing those areas of teaching and scholarship that would 'most help to develop our resources, increase our wisdom, and promote human happiness.'

“To these ends, the mission of Duke University is to provide a superior liberal education to undergraduate students, attending not only to their intellectual growth but also to their development as adults committed to high ethical standards and full participation as leaders in their communities; to prepare future members of the learned professions for lives of skilled and ethical service by providing excellent graduate and professional education; to advance the frontiers of knowledge and contribute boldly to the international community of scholarship; to promote an intellectual environment built on a commitment to free and open inquiry; to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health, through sophisticated medical research and thoughtful patient care; to provide wide ranging educational opportunities, on and beyond our campuses, for traditional students, active professionals and life-long learners using the power of information technologies; and to promote a deep appreciation for the range of human difference and potential, a sense of the obligations and rewards of citizenship, and a commitment to learning, freedom and truth.Duke Meeting

 “By pursuing these objectives with vision and integrity, Duke University seeks to engage the mind, elevate the spirit, and stimulate the best effort of all who are associated with the University; to contribute in diverse ways to the local community, the state, the nation and the world; and to attain and maintain a place of real leadership in all that we do.”

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